Bas At The World Championships: It was not my day
| press release | 18 October 2014 |
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- Australian Formula K distributor - www.prokarting.com.au
Bas Lammers felt an understandable sense of disappointment in the evening of the KZ World Championship at Sarno (ITA). His final ranking doesn’t reflect either his talent nor the potential of his FK Kart / Parilla. But the equipment wasn’t able to give its full performance after an engine failure in the first heat. The results of free practice and in qualifying prove that the Dutch champion could have fought among the best, with a podium even possible, but that’s not how the story went.
Regularly at the front during testing, Lammers confirmed his form early in the meeting with a third fastest time despite the traffic during qualifying for the world event, which brought together the leading experts in karting. During the first qualifying heat, he grabbed second place and closed on the leader, two-tenths of a second away when his engine suddenly broke at full power. From there, the performance was sorely lacking. He just kept pace in the second heat where he finished sixth. As always giving the maximum, the Dutch driver could only retain his ranking, 16th, in the prefinal and climbed to 13th in the final.
“Of course, this is not a satisfactory result ...” he explained. “The team had worked hard to prepare for this great world event. On a track I like and where I have already achieved great success in the 2012 World Cup, I was hoping to fight for the win. Without this mechanical problem, a good result was quite possible. That’s racing. ”
“Fortunately, the results of this first season with Formula K have been very positive. The objective of the team was to develop the equipment at the highest level in KZ, and this has been achieved. We made good progress since the beginning of the year and in particular finished fourth in the European Championship. This is encouraging for the future. With a second driver with me, we should go faster next year.
"My season will continue in a few weeks with the Thomas Knopper Memorial in Germany and the WSK Final Cup in Adria (ITA), followed by the famous Supernationals in Las Vegas in November. There are great challenges ahead. I’m confident for 2015 and hope to reap the fruits of our work this time next year.”
